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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=Attack of the Killer App<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=7<br />
|no=91<br />
|image=[[File:Mom Twitcher.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Mom]] promoting [[Twitcher]].<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Stephen Sandoval<br />
|caption=There Will Be a Test<br />
|first aired=1 July, [[2010]]<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Attack of the Killer Tomatoes}}''<br />
|number=6ACV03<br />
|special guest=[[Craig Ferguson]]<br />
|broadcast number=S07E03<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|prev ep=In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela<br />
|next ep=Proposition Infinity<br />
|guest-stars=[[Craig Ferguson]] as [[Susan]]<br />
}}<br />
After [[Mom]] launches the new [[eyePhone]], [[Bender]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] race to getting a million followers on the [[Twitcher|Twit]] [[mobile app|app]].<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Good news, nobodies!" ===<br />
At the [[New New York]] annual [[Annual e-Waste Recycling Festival|e-Waste event]], [[Mayor Poopenmeyer]] announces the importance of throwing out dated e-waste. The [[Planet Express]] crew is there to throw out their old electronics, such as [[doomsday devices]], [[Japanese toilet]]s and evidence. When asked where all the waste goes, Poopenmeyer says they get some "minimum-wage nobodies" to fly it off to the third world. This cues [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] to announce to his crew that they are the nobodies.<br />
<br />
The third world turns out to be the [[Third World of the Antares system]], where all e-waste is dumped and burnt, turning it into ash and releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere. While the lead alien explains the process to the crew, the other aliens partially dismantle the ship and [[Bender]]. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] is horrified by the devastation caused by e-waste polution, and decides that the crew should avoid throwing out electronics just because it is dated, and takes back her old phone.<br />
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Her noble actions are short-lived: when an ad for the new [[eyePhone]] appears on television, the crew immediately throw out their current phones and head for the queue, which stretches across town. After a day of waiting, the crew begins to suspect that they are nothing but consumer zombies. Luckily, [[Dr. Ben Beeler]] is there to relieve them of their worries, as the eyePhone have all the apps you need. <br />
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Upon finally arriving at the [[Mom Store]], a giant screen with [[Mom]] announces that the eyePhones are in short supply, which spreads panic among the shoppers. The short supply line is revealed to be a method for increasing demand. Despite being told that the eyePhone has no choice of carrier, can't change the battery and more, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] becomes impatient and demands the man at the counter to take his money. Fry is about to ask why the device is called an 'eyePhone' when the salesman installs it directly in Fry's eye.<br />
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=== Act II: "Did you know these eyePhones are phones too?" ===<br />
[[File:File-6ACV03 Floating Screens.jpg|left|thumb|A [[promo pic]] showing the crew using the floating screens from their eyePhones]]<br />
Soon all the crew members are addicts to their eyePhones and especially the extra service, [[Twitcher|Twit]], which allows them to send small video messages to everyone who wishes to see it. Bender becomes obsessed with the popularity he can easily gain from sending out videos and increasing his amount of followers. Fry, on the other hand, is not doing so well in numbers of followers, but decides to accept a challenge from Bender about who can first reach one million followers. The loser of the bet must bathe in a pool filled with puke and diarrhea from a [[Mr. Chunks|two-headed goat]].<br />
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Meanwhile, Mom is very pleased with the sale of her eyePhones, because they are a much more efficient way of sucking information out of people than her "old-fashioned methods like spybots and [[Infosquito]]es". With Twitcher, people are apparently willing to post everything they do, which all eyePhones record and Mom can see all this information. In addition, she is pleased to learn that Bender and Fry are holding their million follower-Twit challenge, because when one person reaches one million followers, she can initiate her [[Twitt-worm|Twit-worm]], what she calls the ''true'' killer app of the eyePhone, but never fully explains what it does.<br />
<br />
Back at Planet Express, Bender's follower numbers are rising fast, while Fry is still in the two digits. Fry learns about Leela's horrible secret, that she has a bisexual singing boil on her right butt cheek that she calls [[Susan Boil|Susan]], an obvious pun on Susan Boyle. In discovering it, his eyePhone also films it. Leela begs Fry not to upload it, even though it will increase the number of his Twit followers. Desperate not to lose, Fry uploads it anyway.<br />
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=== Act III: "Impending news, everyone!" ===<br />
The video is a huge success, and Leela is devastated when she discovers that Fry lied to her. Walking through the streets of New New York, Leela feels she has become a freak show and desperately wants to hide her shame.<br />
<br />
The video results in Bender and Fry reaching one million followers at the same time; with no loser, no one has to swim in the pool. Mom is even more pleased with the results, as she now has two million people she can infect with the Twit-worm. In front of the [[Planet Express headquarters]], Leela finds Fry, who reveals that, to show his remorse, he published a video of himself diving into the pool. But Leela has discovered that her boil is already yesterday's news, and nobody cares about it any more.<br />
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Meanwhile, around them, swarms of people walk zombie-like towards the Mom Store, where they are going to be the first to purchase the new eyePhone 2.0.<br />
<br />
== Production ==<br />
The plot of "Attack of the Killer App" was among the plots mentioned at the ''[[Futurama]]'' panel at the [[2009]] {{w|San Diego Comic-Con}}.<ref name="cinemablend-comiccon">{{cite web |url=http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Comic-Con-Futurama-Ignores-Controversy-Promises-To-Take-On-Twitter-18844.html |title=Comic Con: Futurama Ignores Controversy, Promises To Take On Twitter |publisher=Cinema Blend |date=2009-07-25 |accessdate=2009-07-26 |author=Perkis, Ed}}</ref> And [[Craig Ferguson]] was among the first guest actors of the production season to come to the recording studio. During [[Comedy Central]] Insider's ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'', a [[Storyboard:Attack of the Killer App|storyboard]] was released showing Farnsworth and Hermes throwing out dangerous doomsday devices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/05/20/countdown-to-futurama-doomsday-devices-storyboards/ |title=Countdown to Futurama: Doomsday Devices Storyboard |publisher=Comedy Central Insider |author=Tobey, Matt |date=2010-05-20 |accessdate=2010-05-20}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
"Attack of the Killer App" aired 22:00, 1 July, 2010 on Comedy Central, following a rebroadcast of "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]". It received 2.2 million viewers and 1.1 million adults age 18-49.<ref name="603ratings107">{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/07/02/thursday-cable-ratings-usas-royal-pains-bethenny-lags-futurama/56051|title=Thursday Cable Ratings: USA's ''Royal Pains'' & ''Burn Notice'' lead Thursday cable pack; ''Bethenny'' lags ''Futurama''|work=TV by the Numbers|author=Seidman, Robert|date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref><br />
<br />
Because it is more topical than most episodes, and because of the arguable out-of-character moments of some characters, some fans rank the episode among the worst in the history of the series.<br />
<br />
=== ''iPhone'' controversy ===<br />
[[Comedy Central]] removed mention of the "eyePhone" in their online video previews,<ref name="maclife-iphoneremoval">{{cite web |url=http://www.maclife.com/article/news/why_did_comedy_central_remove_eyephone_reference_futurama_online_clip | title=Why Did Comedy Central Remove EyePhone Reference from Futurama Online Clip? |author=Baldwin, Roberto |publisher=MacLife |date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref> resulting in an awkward reaction to nothing by the characters.<ref name="gizmodo-iphoneremoval">{{cite web |url=http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/07/futurama-weirdly-removes-eyephone-reference-from-online-clip/ |title=''Futurama'' Weirdly Removes EyePhone Reference From Online Clip |author=Chen, Jason |publisher=Gizmodo Australia |date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref> By this point, neither Comedy Central nor Apple Inc. have made a comment on why the line was removed, but MacLife holds that only one company could be interested in removing it.<ref name="maclife-iphoneremoval"/><br />
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== Additional info ==<br />
[[File:6ACV03 Dismantled Ship still.jpg|right|thumb|A promo pic showing the dismantled ship.]]<br />
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=== Trivia ===<br />
*As in "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", the [[opening sequence]] was abridged in this episode. Consequently, there is no [[List of opening cartoons|opening cartoon]].<br />
*The title of the episode is a reference to the cult film ''{{w|Attack of the Killer Tomatoes}}''.<br />
*6 August, 1991 is the date {{w|Tim Berners-Lee}} announced the {{w|World Wide Web}} project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.<br />
*In his first two appearances, [[Scoop Chang]] was voiced by [[David Herman]]. In this episode, however, he is voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]].<br />
*For reasons unknown, Leela wears her full costume from [[Applied Cryogenics]] during the first part of the episode.<br />
* Fry's line, "Shut up and take my money!", is currently a popular Internet meme, commonly used to show appreciation for something, and said person's willingness to buy it. <br />
*Among the zombies infected with the [[twitt-worm]] are two who bear a strong resemblance to [[Fry, Bender and Leela's replacements|Fry and Leela's replacements]] from "[[When Aliens Attack]]". There is a zombie character resembling {{s|Krusty the Clown}} from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<br />
*The crew (other than Fry, Bender and Leela) become zombies.<br />
*The chair shown during the [[Infosquito]] gag is the same one used in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "{{st|episode=Dagger of the Mind}}".<br />
*The worm only affects the between 1 and 2 million people, because Mom did not stop to think some people might be following Fry and Bender. and, when the crew had lunch at the pizza place across the street, Leela mentioned she had unsubscribed from Fry's [[Twitcher|Twit]] feed the day before, and was implied not to be a follower of Bender when Bender tweeted and no beeps were heard in the room.<br />
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=== Continuity ===<br />
*The shell phone Zoidberg throws away debuted in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.<br />
*The cell phone Amy throws away was first seen in "[[Amazon Women in the Mood]]".<br />
*The episode seemed to show the last of [[Flexo]] before his death, presuming he didn't escape afterwards.<br />
**Although it is revealed in "[[Lethal Inspection]]" that your typical [[Bending Units|Bending Unit]] can never die, but simply be transferred into a new body if need be.<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*The hinges of [[Bender]]'s chest cavity door are on the wrong side after the [[Antarians]] strip him halfway down.<br />
*Right after every crew member tosses their phones in the garbage, [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]'s pants are white instead of aqua.<br />
*Zoidberg is very poor, yet he is able to afford an [[eyePhone]].<br />
**It could have been a gift from someone.<br />
**Zoidberg lives in a dumpster. He might have found one there.<br />
*When the [[eyePhone salesman]] that Fry talks to opens the eyePhone box, the [[Mom Store]] logo is properly oriented, but, once the box is opened and the camera angle changes, the logo is flipped upside-down, thus again properly oriented in relation to the camera. Also, after he reaches for the eyePhone, his hand grabs more than one copy. Strangely, in the very next scene, he has only one to give to Fry.<br />
*When [[Leela]] is talking to Fry after discovering the eyePhone functions as a phone, she is flying through space, as shown by the stars flashing by through the window. However, in the next second, she crashes the [[Planet Express ship|ship]] into the [[Planet Express building]].<br />
**The ship moves at 99% the speed of light {{et|4ACV09}}, so it is possible that it was in space one second, and landing at Planet Express in the next second.<br />
*The sitting arrangement changes when Leela crashes the ship.<br />
:'''Before''': Fry - [[Amy]] - Empty - Zoidberg - Bender - [[Hermes]] - Empty - Empty<br />
:'''After''': Fry - Amy - Zoidberg - Bender - Empty - Hermes - Empty<br />
:Note that there is one chair missing. Interestingly, the first sitting arrangement is the same as the one in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
*Bender should be seated where Hermes was seated so the angle of the video he posted would be accurate.<br />
*In the final scene where everyone turns into a zombie, Fry and Leela are unaffected, even though both have eyePhones. Arguably, Fry could be unaffected because he is the worm carrier, or because of [[delta brainwave|his unique brain]], but there is no explanation as to Leela.<br />
**She states in the pizzeria that she unsubscribed Fry's tweets, and she may have simply not subscribed to Bender at all.<br />
*The second time Fry and Leela hug, Fry has 4 legs.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*Fry refers to [[Mr. Chunks]] as a puke-me-poop-you, possibly his species name, but surely a play on the two-headed pushmi-pullyu from the classic children’s series {{w|Dr. Dolittle}}.<br />
*[[Susan Boil]] is a parody of Scottish internet singing sensation {{w|Susan Boyle}}.<br />
*[[eyePhone|eyePhones]] are parodies of {{w|iPhone}}s.<br />
*[[Twitcher]] is a parody of the popular social networking site {{w|Twitter}}.<br />
*The scene of Leela exiting [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]] is a parody of the famous scene of {{w|Marilyn Monroe}} in ''{{w|The Seven Year Itch}}''.<br />
*The floating screens are just like the hoverchair screens from ''{{w|WALL-E}}''<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]''': Flexo, what are you doing in a hazardous waste bin?<br />
'''[[Flexo]]''': Haven't you heard? Us [[Bending Units]] are dangerously outdated. We overheat, we're radioactive, we cause erectile dysfunc— ''[Bender shuts e-wastebin.]''<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': Bender, who were you talking to?<br />
'''[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]''': No one? Your mama? Shut up? Take your pick.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Scoop Chang]]''': Isn't all this e-waste dangerous?<br />
'''[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]''': Not at all, Scoop! Not after it's hauled off to the [[Third World of the Antares system|Third World]] by a team of expendable, minimum wage nobodies!<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': ''[Turns to the crew.]'' Good news, nobodies!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': So long, overly complicated Japanese toilet.<br />
'''[[Japanese toilet]]''': ''[Japanese accent.]'' Please, not to throw away. I give you happy poopy time.<br />
'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': Sorry, you know too much.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': These old doomsday devices are dangerously unstable. I'll rest easier not knowing where they are.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Alien on [[Third World of the Antares system|Third World]]''': We burn your e-waste down to the usable metals, safely releasing the toxics into our air and drinking water.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
==== Characters ====<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Antarians]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ben Beeler|Ben Beeler]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Dr. Ben Beeler's wife|Ben Beeler's wife]] ([[Deleted scenes#Volume 5|deleted scene]])<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bolt Rolands]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*[[Scoop Chang]]<br />
*[[Chaz]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mr. Chunks]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Flexo]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes]] <br />
*[[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Hypnotoad]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Infosquito]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Japanese toilet]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Neutral President]] (cameo)<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Susan the boil]]<br />
* [[Unnamed Clown]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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==== Miscellaneous ====<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mobile app]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring contests]]</div>207.62.246.192http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Attack_of_the_Killer_App&diff=143265Attack of the Killer App2014-03-26T23:51:03Z<p>207.62.246.192: </p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=Attack of the Killer App<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=7<br />
|no=91<br />
|image=[[File:Mom Twitcher.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Mom]] promoting [[Twitcher]].<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Stephen Sandoval<br />
|caption=There Will Be a Test<br />
|first aired=1 July, [[2010]]<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Attack of the Killer Tomatoes}}''<br />
|number=6ACV03<br />
|special guest=[[Craig Ferguson]]<br />
|broadcast number=S07E03<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|prev ep=In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela<br />
|next ep=Proposition Infinity<br />
|guest-stars=[[Craig Ferguson]] as [[Susan]]<br />
}}<br />
After [[Mom]] launches the new [[eyePhone]], [[Bender]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] race to getting a million followers on the [[Twitcher|Twit]] [[mobile app|app]].<br />
<br />
== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Good news, nobodies!" ===<br />
At the [[New New York]] annual [[Annual e-Waste Recycling Festival|e-Waste event]], [[Mayor Poopenmeyer]] announces the importance of throwing out dated e-waste. The [[Planet Express]] crew is there to throw out their old electronics, such as [[doomsday devices]], [[Japanese toilet]]s and evidence. When asked where all the waste goes, Poopenmeyer says they get some "minimum-wage nobodies" to fly it off to the third world. This cues [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] to announce to his crew that they are the nobodies.<br />
<br />
The third world turns out to be the [[Third World of the Antares system]], where all e-waste is dumped and burnt, turning it into ash and releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere. While the lead alien explains the process to the crew, the other aliens partially dismantle the ship and [[Bender]]. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] is horrified by the devastation caused by e-waste polution, and decides that the crew should avoid throwing out electronics just because it is dated, and takes back her old phone.<br />
<br />
Her noble actions are short-lived: when an ad for the new [[eyePhone]] appears on television, the crew immediately throw out their current phones and head for the queue, which stretches across town. After a day of waiting, the crew begins to suspect that they are nothing but consumer zombies. Luckily, [[Dr. Ben Beeler]] is there to relieve them of their worries, as the eyePhone have all the apps you need. <br />
<br />
Upon finally arriving at the [[Mom Store]], a giant screen with [[Mom]] announces that the eyePhones are in short supply, which spreads panic among the shoppers. The short supply line is revealed to be a method for increasing demand. Despite being told that the eyePhone has no choice of carrier, can't change the battery and more, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] becomes impatient and demands the man at the counter to take his money. Fry is about to ask why the device is called an 'eyePhone' when the salesman installs it directly in Fry's eye.<br />
<br />
=== Act II: "Did you know these eyePhones are phones too?" ===<br />
[[File:File-6ACV03 Floating Screens.jpg|left|thumb|A [[promo pic]] showing the crew using the floating screens from their eyePhones]]<br />
Soon all the crew members are addicts to their eyePhones and especially the extra service, [[Twitcher|Twit]], which allows them to send small video messages to everyone who wishes to see it. Bender becomes obsessed with the popularity he can easily gain from sending out videos and increasing his amount of followers. Fry, on the other hand, is not doing so well in numbers of followers, but decides to accept a challenge from Bender about who can first reach one million followers. The loser of the bet must bathe in a pool filled with puke and diarrhea from a [[Mr. Chunks|two-headed goat]].<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, Mom is very pleased with the sale of her eyePhones, because they are a much more efficient way of sucking information out of people than her "old-fashioned methods like spybots and [[Infosquito]]es". With Twitcher, people are apparently willing to post everything they do, which all eyePhones record and Mom can see all this information. In addition, she is pleased to learn that Bender and Fry are holding their million follower-Twit challenge, because when one person reaches one million followers, she can initiate her [[Twitt-worm|Twit-worm]], what she calls the ''true'' killer app of the eyePhone, but never fully explains what it does.<br />
<br />
Back at Planet Express, Bender's follower numbers are rising fast, while Fry is still in the two digits. Fry learns about Leela's horrible secret, that she has a bisexual singing boil on her right butt cheek that she calls [[Susan Boil|Susan]], an obvious pun on Susan Boyle. In discovering it, his eyePhone also films it. Leela begs Fry not to upload it, even though it will increase the number of his Twit followers. Desperate not to lose, Fry uploads it anyway.<br />
<br />
=== Act III: "Impending news, everyone!" ===<br />
The video is a huge success, and Leela is devastated when she discovers that Fry lied to her. Walking through the streets of New New York, Leela feels she has become a freak show and desperately wants to hide her shame.<br />
<br />
The video results in Fry and Bender reaching one million followers at the same time; with no loser, no one has to swim in the pool. Mom is even more pleased with the results, as she now has two million people she can infect with the Twit-worm. In front of the [[Planet Express headquarters]], Leela finds Fry, who reveals that, to show his remorse, he published a video of himself diving into the pool. But Leela has discovered that her boil is already yesterday's news, and nobody cares about it any more.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, around them, swarms of people walk zombie-like towards the Mom Store, where they are going to be the first to purchase the new eyePhone 2.0.<br />
<br />
== Production ==<br />
The plot of "Attack of the Killer App" was among the plots mentioned at the ''[[Futurama]]'' panel at the [[2009]] {{w|San Diego Comic-Con}}.<ref name="cinemablend-comiccon">{{cite web |url=http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Comic-Con-Futurama-Ignores-Controversy-Promises-To-Take-On-Twitter-18844.html |title=Comic Con: Futurama Ignores Controversy, Promises To Take On Twitter |publisher=Cinema Blend |date=2009-07-25 |accessdate=2009-07-26 |author=Perkis, Ed}}</ref> And [[Craig Ferguson]] was among the first guest actors of the production season to come to the recording studio. During [[Comedy Central]] Insider's ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'', a [[Storyboard:Attack of the Killer App|storyboard]] was released showing Farnsworth and Hermes throwing out dangerous doomsday devices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/05/20/countdown-to-futurama-doomsday-devices-storyboards/ |title=Countdown to Futurama: Doomsday Devices Storyboard |publisher=Comedy Central Insider |author=Tobey, Matt |date=2010-05-20 |accessdate=2010-05-20}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Reception ==<br />
"Attack of the Killer App" aired 22:00, 1 July, 2010 on Comedy Central, following a rebroadcast of "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]". It received 2.2 million viewers and 1.1 million adults age 18-49.<ref name="603ratings107">{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/07/02/thursday-cable-ratings-usas-royal-pains-bethenny-lags-futurama/56051|title=Thursday Cable Ratings: USA's ''Royal Pains'' & ''Burn Notice'' lead Thursday cable pack; ''Bethenny'' lags ''Futurama''|work=TV by the Numbers|author=Seidman, Robert|date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref><br />
<br />
Because it is more topical than most episodes, and because of the arguable out-of-character moments of some characters, some fans rank the episode among the worst in the history of the series.<br />
<br />
=== ''iPhone'' controversy ===<br />
[[Comedy Central]] removed mention of the "eyePhone" in their online video previews,<ref name="maclife-iphoneremoval">{{cite web |url=http://www.maclife.com/article/news/why_did_comedy_central_remove_eyephone_reference_futurama_online_clip | title=Why Did Comedy Central Remove EyePhone Reference from Futurama Online Clip? |author=Baldwin, Roberto |publisher=MacLife |date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref> resulting in an awkward reaction to nothing by the characters.<ref name="gizmodo-iphoneremoval">{{cite web |url=http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/07/futurama-weirdly-removes-eyephone-reference-from-online-clip/ |title=''Futurama'' Weirdly Removes EyePhone Reference From Online Clip |author=Chen, Jason |publisher=Gizmodo Australia |date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref> By this point, neither Comedy Central nor Apple Inc. have made a comment on why the line was removed, but MacLife holds that only one company could be interested in removing it.<ref name="maclife-iphoneremoval"/><br />
<br />
== Additional info ==<br />
[[File:6ACV03 Dismantled Ship still.jpg|right|thumb|A promo pic showing the dismantled ship.]]<br />
<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*As in "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", the [[opening sequence]] was abridged in this episode. Consequently, there is no [[List of opening cartoons|opening cartoon]].<br />
*The title of the episode is a reference to the cult film ''{{w|Attack of the Killer Tomatoes}}''.<br />
*6 August, 1991 is the date {{w|Tim Berners-Lee}} announced the {{w|World Wide Web}} project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.<br />
*In his first two appearances, [[Scoop Chang]] was voiced by [[David Herman]]. In this episode, however, he is voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]].<br />
*For reasons unknown, Leela wears her full costume from [[Applied Cryogenics]] during the first part of the episode.<br />
* Fry's line, "Shut up and take my money!", is currently a popular Internet meme, commonly used to show appreciation for something, and said person's willingness to buy it. <br />
*Among the zombies infected with the [[twitt-worm]] are two who bear a strong resemblance to [[Fry, Bender and Leela's replacements|Fry and Leela's replacements]] from "[[When Aliens Attack]]". There is a zombie character resembling {{s|Krusty the Clown}} from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<br />
*The crew (other than Fry, Bender and Leela) become zombies.<br />
*The chair shown during the [[Infosquito]] gag is the same one used in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "{{st|episode=Dagger of the Mind}}".<br />
*The worm only affects the between 1 and 2 million people, because Mom did not stop to think some people might be following Fry and Bender. and, when the crew had lunch at the pizza place across the street, Leela mentioned she had unsubscribed from Fry's [[Twitcher|Twit]] feed the day before, and was implied not to be a follower of Bender when Bender tweeted and no beeps were heard in the room.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*The shell phone Zoidberg throws away debuted in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.<br />
*The cell phone Amy throws away was first seen in "[[Amazon Women in the Mood]]".<br />
*The episode seemed to show the last of [[Flexo]] before his death, presuming he didn't escape afterwards.<br />
**Although it is revealed in "[[Lethal Inspection]]" that your typical [[Bending Units|Bending Unit]] can never die, but simply be transferred into a new body if need be.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*The hinges of [[Bender]]'s chest cavity door are on the wrong side after the [[Antarians]] strip him halfway down.<br />
*Right after every crew member tosses their phones in the garbage, [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]'s pants are white instead of aqua.<br />
*Zoidberg is very poor, yet he is able to afford an [[eyePhone]].<br />
**It could have been a gift from someone.<br />
**Zoidberg lives in a dumpster. He might have found one there.<br />
*When the [[eyePhone salesman]] that Fry talks to opens the eyePhone box, the [[Mom Store]] logo is properly oriented, but, once the box is opened and the camera angle changes, the logo is flipped upside-down, thus again properly oriented in relation to the camera. Also, after he reaches for the eyePhone, his hand grabs more than one copy. Strangely, in the very next scene, he has only one to give to Fry.<br />
*When [[Leela]] is talking to Fry after discovering the eyePhone functions as a phone, she is flying through space, as shown by the stars flashing by through the window. However, in the next second, she crashes the [[Planet Express ship|ship]] into the [[Planet Express building]].<br />
**The ship moves at 99% the speed of light {{et|4ACV09}}, so it is possible that it was in space one second, and landing at Planet Express in the next second.<br />
*The sitting arrangement changes when Leela crashes the ship.<br />
:'''Before''': Fry - [[Amy]] - Empty - Zoidberg - Bender - [[Hermes]] - Empty - Empty<br />
:'''After''': Fry - Amy - Zoidberg - Bender - Empty - Hermes - Empty<br />
:Note that there is one chair missing. Interestingly, the first sitting arrangement is the same as the one in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
*Bender should be seated where Hermes was seated so the angle of the video he posted would be accurate.<br />
*In the final scene where everyone turns into a zombie, Fry and Leela are unaffected, even though both have eyePhones. Arguably, Fry could be unaffected because he is the worm carrier, or because of [[delta brainwave|his unique brain]], but there is no explanation as to Leela.<br />
**She states in the pizzeria that she unsubscribed Fry's tweets, and she may have simply not subscribed to Bender at all.<br />
*The second time Fry and Leela hug, Fry has 4 legs.<br />
<br />
=== Allusions ===<br />
*Fry refers to [[Mr. Chunks]] as a puke-me-poop-you, possibly his species name, but surely a play on the two-headed pushmi-pullyu from the classic children’s series {{w|Dr. Dolittle}}.<br />
*[[Susan Boil]] is a parody of Scottish internet singing sensation {{w|Susan Boyle}}.<br />
*[[eyePhone|eyePhones]] are parodies of {{w|iPhone}}s.<br />
*[[Twitcher]] is a parody of the popular social networking site {{w|Twitter}}.<br />
*The scene of Leela exiting [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]] is a parody of the famous scene of {{w|Marilyn Monroe}} in ''{{w|The Seven Year Itch}}''.<br />
*The floating screens are just like the hoverchair screens from ''{{w|WALL-E}}''<br />
''<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]''': Flexo, what are you doing in a hazardous waste bin?<br />
'''[[Flexo]]''': Haven't you heard? Us [[Bending Units]] are dangerously outdated. We overheat, we're radioactive, we cause erectile dysfunc— ''[Bender shuts e-wastebin.]''<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': Bender, who were you talking to?<br />
'''[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]''': No one? Your mama? Shut up? Take your pick.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Scoop Chang]]''': Isn't all this e-waste dangerous?<br />
'''[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]''': Not at all, Scoop! Not after it's hauled off to the [[Third World of the Antares system|Third World]] by a team of expendable, minimum wage nobodies!<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': ''[Turns to the crew.]'' Good news, nobodies!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': So long, overly complicated Japanese toilet.<br />
'''[[Japanese toilet]]''': ''[Japanese accent.]'' Please, not to throw away. I give you happy poopy time.<br />
'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': Sorry, you know too much.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': These old doomsday devices are dangerously unstable. I'll rest easier not knowing where they are.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Alien on [[Third World of the Antares system|Third World]]''': We burn your e-waste down to the usable metals, safely releasing the toxics into our air and drinking water.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
==== Characters ====<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Antarians]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ben Beeler|Ben Beeler]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Dr. Ben Beeler's wife|Ben Beeler's wife]] ([[Deleted scenes#Volume 5|deleted scene]])<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bolt Rolands]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*[[Scoop Chang]]<br />
*[[Chaz]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mr. Chunks]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Flexo]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes]] <br />
*[[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Hypnotoad]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Infosquito]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Japanese toilet]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Neutral President]] (cameo)<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Susan the boil]]<br />
* [[Unnamed Clown]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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==== Miscellaneous ====<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mobile app]]<br />
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[[Category:Media featuring contests]]</div>207.62.246.192http://theinfosphere.org/index.php?title=Attack_of_the_Killer_App&diff=143263Attack of the Killer App2014-03-26T23:50:06Z<p>207.62.246.192: </p>
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<div>{{episode infobox 2<br />
|name=Attack of the Killer App<br />
|season=6<br />
|broadcast season=7<br />
|no=91<br />
|image=[[File:Mom Twitcher.png|225px]]<br />
|image text=[[Mom]] promoting [[Twitcher]].<br />
|written by=Patric M. Verrone<br />
|directed by=Stephen Sandoval<br />
|caption=There Will Be a Test<br />
|first aired=1 July, [[2010]]<br />
|title reference=''{{w|Attack of the Killer Tomatoes}}''<br />
|number=6ACV03<br />
|special guest=[[Craig Ferguson]]<br />
|broadcast number=S07E03<br />
|hasstoryboard=yes<br />
|prev ep=In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela<br />
|next ep=Proposition Infinity<br />
|guest-stars=[[Craig Ferguson]] as [[Susan]]<br />
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After [[Mom]] launches the new [[eyePhone]], [[Bender Bending Rodriquez|Bender]] and [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] race to getting a million followers on the [[Twitcher|Twit]] [[mobile app|app]].<br />
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== The Story ==<br />
=== Act I: "Good news, nobodies!" ===<br />
At the [[New New York]] annual [[Annual e-Waste Recycling Festival|e-Waste event]], [[Mayor Poopenmeyer]] announces the importance of throwing out dated e-waste. The [[Planet Express]] crew is there to throw out their old electronics, such as [[doomsday devices]], [[Japanese toilet]]s and evidence. When asked where all the waste goes, Poopenmeyer says they get some "minimum-wage nobodies" to fly it off to the third world. This cues [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Farnsworth]] to announce to his crew that they are the nobodies.<br />
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The third world turns out to be the [[Third World of the Antares system]], where all e-waste is dumped and burnt, turning it into ash and releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere. While the lead alien explains the process to the crew, the other aliens partially dismantle the ship and [[Bender]]. [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] is horrified by the devastation caused by e-waste polution, and decides that the crew should avoid throwing out electronics just because it is dated, and takes back her old phone.<br />
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Her noble actions are short-lived: when an ad for the new [[eyePhone]] appears on television, the crew immediately throw out their current phones and head for the queue, which stretches across town. After a day of waiting, the crew begins to suspect that they are nothing but consumer zombies. Luckily, [[Dr. Ben Beeler]] is there to relieve them of their worries, as the eyePhone have all the apps you need. <br />
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Upon finally arriving at the [[Mom Store]], a giant screen with [[Mom]] announces that the eyePhones are in short supply, which spreads panic among the shoppers. The short supply line is revealed to be a method for increasing demand. Despite being told that the eyePhone has no choice of carrier, can't change the battery and more, [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] becomes impatient and demands the man at the counter to take his money. Fry is about to ask why the device is called an 'eyePhone' when the salesman installs it directly in Fry's eye.<br />
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=== Act II: "Did you know these eyePhones are phones too?" ===<br />
[[File:File-6ACV03 Floating Screens.jpg|left|thumb|A [[promo pic]] showing the crew using the floating screens from their eyePhones]]<br />
Soon all the crew members are addicts to their eyePhones and especially the extra service, [[Twitcher|Twit]], which allows them to send small video messages to everyone who wishes to see it. Bender becomes obsessed with the popularity he can easily gain from sending out videos and increasing his amount of followers. Fry, on the other hand, is not doing so well in numbers of followers, but decides to accept a challenge from Bender about who can first reach one million followers. The loser of the bet must bathe in a pool filled with puke and diarrhea from a [[Mr. Chunks|two-headed goat]].<br />
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Meanwhile, Mom is very pleased with the sale of her eyePhones, because they are a much more efficient way of sucking information out of people than her "old-fashioned methods like spybots and [[Infosquito]]es". With Twitcher, people are apparently willing to post everything they do, which all eyePhones record and Mom can see all this information. In addition, she is pleased to learn that Bender and Fry are holding their million follower-Twit challenge, because when one person reaches one million followers, she can initiate her [[Twitt-worm|Twit-worm]], what she calls the ''true'' killer app of the eyePhone, but never fully explains what it does.<br />
<br />
Back at Planet Express, Bender's follower numbers are rising fast, while Fry is still in the two digits. Fry learns about Leela's horrible secret, that she has a bisexual singing boil on her right butt cheek that she calls [[Susan Boil|Susan]], an obvious pun on Susan Boyle. In discovering it, his eyePhone also films it. Leela begs Fry not to upload it, even though it will increase the number of his Twit followers. Desperate not to lose, Fry uploads it anyway.<br />
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=== Act III: "Impending news, everyone!" ===<br />
The video is a huge success, and Leela is devastated when she discovers that Fry lied to her. Walking through the streets of New New York, Leela feels she has become a freak show and desperately wants to hide her shame.<br />
<br />
The video results in Fry and Bender reaching one million followers at the same time; with no loser, no one has to swim in the pool. Mom is even more pleased with the results, as she now has two million people she can infect with the Twit-worm. In front of the [[Planet Express headquarters]], Leela finds Fry, who reveals that, to show his remorse, he published a video of himself diving into the pool. But Leela has discovered that her boil is already yesterday's news, and nobody cares about it any more.<br />
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Meanwhile, around them, swarms of people walk zombie-like towards the Mom Store, where they are going to be the first to purchase the new eyePhone 2.0.<br />
<br />
== Production ==<br />
The plot of "Attack of the Killer App" was among the plots mentioned at the ''[[Futurama]]'' panel at the [[2009]] {{w|San Diego Comic-Con}}.<ref name="cinemablend-comiccon">{{cite web |url=http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Comic-Con-Futurama-Ignores-Controversy-Promises-To-Take-On-Twitter-18844.html |title=Comic Con: Futurama Ignores Controversy, Promises To Take On Twitter |publisher=Cinema Blend |date=2009-07-25 |accessdate=2009-07-26 |author=Perkis, Ed}}</ref> And [[Craig Ferguson]] was among the first guest actors of the production season to come to the recording studio. During [[Comedy Central]] Insider's ''[[Countdown to Futurama]]'', a [[Storyboard:Attack of the Killer App|storyboard]] was released showing Farnsworth and Hermes throwing out dangerous doomsday devices.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/05/20/countdown-to-futurama-doomsday-devices-storyboards/ |title=Countdown to Futurama: Doomsday Devices Storyboard |publisher=Comedy Central Insider |author=Tobey, Matt |date=2010-05-20 |accessdate=2010-05-20}}</ref><br />
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== Reception ==<br />
"Attack of the Killer App" aired 22:00, 1 July, 2010 on Comedy Central, following a rebroadcast of "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]". It received 2.2 million viewers and 1.1 million adults age 18-49.<ref name="603ratings107">{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/07/02/thursday-cable-ratings-usas-royal-pains-bethenny-lags-futurama/56051|title=Thursday Cable Ratings: USA's ''Royal Pains'' & ''Burn Notice'' lead Thursday cable pack; ''Bethenny'' lags ''Futurama''|work=TV by the Numbers|author=Seidman, Robert|date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref><br />
<br />
Because it is more topical than most episodes, and because of the arguable out-of-character moments of some characters, some fans rank the episode among the worst in the history of the series.<br />
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=== ''iPhone'' controversy ===<br />
[[Comedy Central]] removed mention of the "eyePhone" in their online video previews,<ref name="maclife-iphoneremoval">{{cite web |url=http://www.maclife.com/article/news/why_did_comedy_central_remove_eyephone_reference_futurama_online_clip | title=Why Did Comedy Central Remove EyePhone Reference from Futurama Online Clip? |author=Baldwin, Roberto |publisher=MacLife |date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref> resulting in an awkward reaction to nothing by the characters.<ref name="gizmodo-iphoneremoval">{{cite web |url=http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/07/futurama-weirdly-removes-eyephone-reference-from-online-clip/ |title=''Futurama'' Weirdly Removes EyePhone Reference From Online Clip |author=Chen, Jason |publisher=Gizmodo Australia |date=2010-07-02 |accessdate=2010-07-03}}</ref> By this point, neither Comedy Central nor Apple Inc. have made a comment on why the line was removed, but MacLife holds that only one company could be interested in removing it.<ref name="maclife-iphoneremoval"/><br />
<br />
== Additional info ==<br />
[[File:6ACV03 Dismantled Ship still.jpg|right|thumb|A promo pic showing the dismantled ship.]]<br />
<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
*As in "[[In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela]]", the [[opening sequence]] was abridged in this episode. Consequently, there is no [[List of opening cartoons|opening cartoon]].<br />
*The title of the episode is a reference to the cult film ''{{w|Attack of the Killer Tomatoes}}''.<br />
*6 August, 1991 is the date {{w|Tim Berners-Lee}} announced the {{w|World Wide Web}} project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.<br />
*In his first two appearances, [[Scoop Chang]] was voiced by [[David Herman]]. In this episode, however, he is voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]].<br />
*For reasons unknown, Leela wears her full costume from [[Applied Cryogenics]] during the first part of the episode.<br />
* Fry's line, "Shut up and take my money!", is currently a popular Internet meme, commonly used to show appreciation for something, and said person's willingness to buy it. <br />
*Among the zombies infected with the [[twitt-worm]] are two who bear a strong resemblance to [[Fry, Bender and Leela's replacements|Fry and Leela's replacements]] from "[[When Aliens Attack]]". There is a zombie character resembling {{s|Krusty the Clown}} from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<br />
*The crew (other than Fry, Bender and Leela) become zombies.<br />
*The chair shown during the [[Infosquito]] gag is the same one used in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "{{st|episode=Dagger of the Mind}}".<br />
*The worm only affects the between 1 and 2 million people, because Mom did not stop to think some people might be following Fry and Bender. and, when the crew had lunch at the pizza place across the street, Leela mentioned she had unsubscribed from Fry's [[Twitcher|Twit]] feed the day before, and was implied not to be a follower of Bender when Bender tweeted and no beeps were heard in the room.<br />
<br />
=== Continuity ===<br />
*The shell phone Zoidberg throws away debuted in ''[[The Beast with a Billion Backs]]''.<br />
*The cell phone Amy throws away was first seen in "[[Amazon Women in the Mood]]".<br />
*The episode seemed to show the last of [[Flexo]] before his death, presuming he didn't escape afterwards.<br />
**Although it is revealed in "[[Lethal Inspection]]" that your typical [[Bending Units|Bending Unit]] can never die, but simply be transferred into a new body if need be.<br />
<br />
=== Goofs ===<br />
*The hinges of [[Bender]]'s chest cavity door are on the wrong side after the [[Antarians]] strip him halfway down.<br />
*Right after every crew member tosses their phones in the garbage, [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]'s pants are white instead of aqua.<br />
*Zoidberg is very poor, yet he is able to afford an [[eyePhone]].<br />
**It could have been a gift from someone.<br />
**Zoidberg lives in a dumpster. He might have found one there.<br />
*When the [[eyePhone salesman]] that Fry talks to opens the eyePhone box, the [[Mom Store]] logo is properly oriented, but, once the box is opened and the camera angle changes, the logo is flipped upside-down, thus again properly oriented in relation to the camera. Also, after he reaches for the eyePhone, his hand grabs more than one copy. Strangely, in the very next scene, he has only one to give to Fry.<br />
*When [[Leela]] is talking to Fry after discovering the eyePhone functions as a phone, she is flying through space, as shown by the stars flashing by through the window. However, in the next second, she crashes the [[Planet Express ship|ship]] into the [[Planet Express building]].<br />
**The ship moves at 99% the speed of light {{et|4ACV09}}, so it is possible that it was in space one second, and landing at Planet Express in the next second.<br />
*The sitting arrangement changes when Leela crashes the ship.<br />
:'''Before''': Fry - [[Amy]] - Empty - Zoidberg - Bender - [[Hermes]] - Empty - Empty<br />
:'''After''': Fry - Amy - Zoidberg - Bender - Empty - Hermes - Empty<br />
:Note that there is one chair missing. Interestingly, the first sitting arrangement is the same as the one in "[[The Late Philip J. Fry]]".<br />
*Bender should be seated where Hermes was seated so the angle of the video he posted would be accurate.<br />
*In the final scene where everyone turns into a zombie, Fry and Leela are unaffected, even though both have eyePhones. Arguably, Fry could be unaffected because he is the worm carrier, or because of [[delta brainwave|his unique brain]], but there is no explanation as to Leela.<br />
**She states in the pizzeria that she unsubscribed Fry's tweets, and she may have simply not subscribed to Bender at all.<br />
*The second time Fry and Leela hug, Fry has 4 legs.<br />
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=== Allusions ===<br />
*Fry refers to [[Mr. Chunks]] as a puke-me-poop-you, possibly his species name, but surely a play on the two-headed pushmi-pullyu from the classic children’s series {{w|Dr. Dolittle}}.<br />
*[[Susan Boil]] is a parody of Scottish internet singing sensation {{w|Susan Boyle}}.<br />
*[[eyePhone|eyePhones]] are parodies of {{w|iPhone}}s.<br />
*[[Twitcher]] is a parody of the popular social networking site {{w|Twitter}}.<br />
*The scene of Leela exiting [[Elzar's Fine Cuisine]] is a parody of the famous scene of {{w|Marilyn Monroe}} in ''{{w|The Seven Year Itch}}''.<br />
*The floating screens are just like the hoverchair screens from ''{{w|WALL-E}}''<br />
''<br />
<br />
=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]''': Flexo, what are you doing in a hazardous waste bin?<br />
'''[[Flexo]]''': Haven't you heard? Us [[Bending Units]] are dangerously outdated. We overheat, we're radioactive, we cause erectile dysfunc— ''[Bender shuts e-wastebin.]''<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': Bender, who were you talking to?<br />
'''[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]''': No one? Your mama? Shut up? Take your pick.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Scoop Chang]]''': Isn't all this e-waste dangerous?<br />
'''[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]''': Not at all, Scoop! Not after it's hauled off to the [[Third World of the Antares system|Third World]] by a team of expendable, minimum wage nobodies!<br />
'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': ''[Turns to the crew.]'' Good news, nobodies!</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]''': So long, overly complicated Japanese toilet.<br />
'''[[Japanese toilet]]''': ''[Japanese accent.]'' Please, not to throw away. I give you happy poopy time.<br />
'''[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]''': Sorry, you know too much.</poem><br />
<poem>'''[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]''': These old doomsday devices are dangerously unstable. I'll rest easier not knowing where they are.</poem><br />
<poem>'''Alien on [[Third World of the Antares system|Third World]]''': We burn your e-waste down to the usable metals, safely releasing the toxics into our air and drinking water.</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Appearances ===<br />
==== Characters ====<br />
{{chars-begin}}<br />
*[[Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Antarians]]<br />
*[[Dr. Ben Beeler|Ben Beeler]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Dr. Ben Beeler's wife|Ben Beeler's wife]] ([[Deleted scenes#Volume 5|deleted scene]])<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez|Bender]]<br />
*[[Bolt Rolands]]<br />
*[[Calculon]]<br />
*[[Scoop Chang]]<br />
*[[Chaz]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mr. Chunks]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Professor Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Flexo]]<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes]] <br />
*[[Hoschel]]<br />
*[[Hypnotoad]]<br />
*[[Igner]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Infosquito]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Japanese toilet]]<br />
*[[Larry]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*[[Mayor C. Randall Poopenmeyer|Mayor Poopenmeyer]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Monique]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Neutral President]] (cameo)<br />
*[[Sal]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Stephanie]]<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Susan the boil]]<br />
* [[Unnamed Clown]]<br />
*[[Walt]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
{{chars-end}}<br />
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==== Miscellaneous ====<br />
*'''Debut''': [[Mobile app]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{comic infobox<br />
|name=The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 1<br />
|image=[[File:Futurama-17-Cover.jpg|225px]]<br />
|us no=017<br />
|uk no=024, 025<br />
|written by= Ian Boothby<br />
|art by= John Delaney<br />
|title caption=4 out of 5 aliens recommend...<br />
|us publish=26 May, 2004<br />
|uk publish=22 September, 2005 (part 1a)<br />20 October, 2005 (part 1b)<br />
|paperback=[[Futurama: The Time Bender Trilogy|The Time Bender Triology]]<br />
|prev=Kickin' It Old School<br />
|next=The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 2<br />
}}<br />
"'''The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 1'''" is the seventeenth [[comic]] issue and the first of [[The Time Bender Trilogy]], which was released 26 May, 2004 in the US and 22 September, 2005 in the UK. <!-- insert brief plot summary here --><br />
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== The Story ==<br />
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=== Act I ===<br />
[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]], [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]], and [[Cubert J. Farnsworth|Cubert]] have returned to earth to find it is deserted but all Fry and Bender want to do is loot, until [[Lrrr]] and [[Ndnd]] appear claiming the planet since it is legally uninhabited and would only be inhabited if there were at least 100 people living there. Fry makes up a story that there are 100 people at {{Planet Express}}; but if they aren’t sent over in an hour Fry and Bender will be slaves. At Planet Express Cubert finds some pieces of a device that was recently used and have chroniton readings. Cubert is suddenly taken off by a pterosaur that came out of a vortex which lands where the Omicronians are. Cubert is used as a slave. <br />
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=== Act II ===<br />
Bender ties the time vortex in a knot before the crew find Cubert and they bring [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]’s shells and some mannequins with them to disguise them as the needed population, they also dress up as other people. The Omicronians leave and Leela finds a video attached to the pterosaur’s foot, which shows all of Earth's citizens in the time of the dinosaurs and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]] recording it. He explains that his experiment opened a time vortex and that the crew must bring three pieces of the machine. Fry realises that if the earth isn’t saved he will cease to exist but there is still time to save it. The time vortex is in three parts after Bender tied it in a knot and each crewmember is sucked in with a piece of the time machine into different years…<br />
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== Additional Info ==<br />
=== Trivia ===<br />
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*This is the second time Bender has attached ears to his head. The first time was in "[[Godfellas]]".<br />
*The art in this issue is different from "[[Kickin' It Old School]]" which is before this issue, this is due to a different person inking the previous issue. All other staff is consistent for the trilogy.<br />
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=== Quotes ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Professor''': Well, I've got to go. Time to flee in terror again!</poem><br />
<poem>'''Leela''': Fry, after I stop screaming in terror, remind me to kick your butt....<br />
'''Bender''': After you kick his butt, I'm gonna kick his ass!</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Alien-Language Sightings ===<br />
{{q|<br />
<poem>'''Location''': Omicronian flag<br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': 8</poem><br />
<poem>'''Location''': Billboard<br />
'''Language''': [[Alien Languages#AL1|AL1]]<br />
'''Translation''': DISPOSABLE OFFICE T?P</poem><br />
}}<br />
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=== Goofs ===<br />
*Bender mentions he hates the taste of attached files but Bender can't taste.<br />
**He has been known to taste liquids, so maybe he can taste only certain things.<br />
*The cover art, which in this case does refer to the comic's content, mistakenly lists the population as 3, it should be 4.<br />
**Bender didn't count one of them.<br />
*Farnsworth is somehow able to hold up the video on which he is currently recording.<br />
**It may have been a different tape he used for example.<br />
*[[Omicron Persei 8]] is mispelled ''Omicrom Persei 8''.<br />
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=== Characters ===<br />
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*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*'''Debut:''' [[Flexo]]<br />
*The Grand Midwife<br />
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*[[Dr. Amy Wong|Amy]]<br />
*[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]]<br />
*{{Cubert}}<br />
*[[Philip J. Fry|Fry]]<br />
*[[Hermes Conrad|Hermes]]<br />
*[[LaBarbara Conrad]]<br />
*[[Turanga Leela|Leela]]<br />
*{{Linda}}<br />
*[[Lrrr]]<br />
*[[Mom]]<br />
*[[Morbo]]<br />
*[[Ndnd]]<br />
*[[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Scruffy]]<br />
*[[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Zoidberg]]<br />
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== Comic Credits ==<br />
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*Script<br />
**[[Ian Boothby]]<br />
*Pencils<br />
**[[John Delaney]]<br />
*Inks<br />
**[[Phyllis Novin]]<br />
*Colors<br />
**[[Joey Mason]]<br />
*Letters<br />
**[[Karen Bates]]<br />
*Editor<br />
**[[Bill Morrison]]<br />
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